How do you make changes in your life? Easy steps!

I know change is hard, especially as we age. We get into our habits, many of them lifelong habits, ingrained in our being. It can seem like an impossible task to change something you have always done, even when you know that the thing you’re doing is horrible for your health. So how do you make changes in your life? Changes that will stick? Read on…

What changes need to be made?

It seems simple, right? You want a different result in some area of your life, and you know that what you’re doing now won’t get that result, so taking stock of this, taking inventory of the results will bring you to the changes you need to make for that desired result.

So, for the sake of this article, let’s say that the result you want is you want to feel better. You are sluggish, tired, kind of sad ;most days, anxious every day, and you’re tired of feeling that way. You go through day after day thinking tomorrow is the day that “things” will change. What you need to realize is that “things” don’t change unless you make a change. Does that make sense? How are “things” going to change if you don’t do something to make them change?

In our example, you want to change the way you feel. You want more energy. You want to feel younger, to be able to do more things, to feel happier inside. That requires change. What changes need to be made?

Take stock of your life. Do some research (this website is a great destination for this information), find out what makes a person have little energy, feel tired, depressed and anxious. I can tell you that dehydration is a key factor in energy levels. I have a great article that talks about the benefits of drinking more water and actually how to help you accomplish this task. You can find it here: HOW TO DRINK MORE WATER

Take stock of the required changes

We’ve addressed the need for more water in our example above, so let’s continue on that same path. We know we need to make changes to feel better, and research is required. We find that lack of sleep is shown to have a profound effect on our mood, our energy levels and our ability to concentrate. So do you get enough sleep? What is enough sleep? Most studies suggest between 7-8 hours nightly, with slightly more needed for teenagers and slightly less for people over 65 years old.

This is an easy one, how many hours of sleep are you getting on an average night? If the answer is less than 7, you know that this is a required change you need to make in your life to achieve the goal of feeling less tired, less depressed, more alert. Notice is said required change. If you want to feel better, you have to take certain steps and make certain changes. I always recommend baby steps. This is the only way to affect lasting changes in your life.

There are more in-depth articles on specific steps to take to feel younger and happier, and they are addressed in this website in detail. For now, I think what you need to do is “practice” making changes in your life. You see, once you make one small change, and stick to it, it will suddenly open your eyes to the opportunity that change is indeed possible for you – your goals are attainable – one step at a time.

How do you stick to the change?

The first step in lasting change in your life is the figure out why you want this change. What will this change do for you? How will you feel once you’ve acquired this change? In our example above, we used the goal of feeling younger, feeling less depressed and having more energy. I know what this change did for my life. I went from someone who hated getting out of bed because my anxiety was so high and I felt so lousy, to feeling refreshed in the morning and looking forward to the day.

This is the key – picture yourself feeling wonderful! Picture yourself in whatever way you want yourself to be. This picture is going to be what drives you to success. Just remember, we are taking one baby step today. That’s it. One step. You’re smart, and you really do know what you should be doing to get your desired result. Maybe not every single step, that’s why I’m here, to help you with those steps, but you do know a first step you can take for your goal.

Keep the momentum

Take this seriously. This is the only life you’re going to have, and you only dance on this rock for a very short time, so let’s dance it up, shall we? You can do this, but you’re going to need help. Use this website as a tool and a resource to accomplish your first goal. If it’s just as simple as getting more sleep, you’ve got this. You need to clearly picture the benefit of getting to bed on time and sleeping through the night in your head, so when you see that “one last show” or your “favorite movie” and you think, ah, I’ll just watch it tonight and tomorrow I’ll get to bed early, the picture of the benefit, of your new life, will drive you to keep to your bedtime. One baby step. It could mean a huge improvement.

Conclusion

Let me know what your goal is and what you chose for your first baby step. I will help you with more steps or direct you to other articles here that could give you more information on what you are trying to accomplish. I look forward to hearing from you! Leave your comment here. I look forward to hearing from you and helping you in your goals!

35 thoughts on “How do you make changes in your life? Easy steps!”

Good article about making changes to your life. Personally, if I would like to make major changes in my life, I always like to write it down so that I can see it and be reminded every day. You are right, breaking it down into baby steps is easier to achieve towards the main goal. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for this beautiful post. The tip about taking more water truly works, I have been doing To for a while now and it has done a lot to improve my energy levels and boost my mood at all times. I will admit I am a culprit when it comes to sleeping for short hours because I have been working nonstop to get my online business off the ground. I realize I need to make some changes there as well.

Oh I know what you mean about the short sleep. I have been doing the same thing! LOL. If you want to read my review on the best water bottle, you won’t believe it. It actually infuses the water with electrolytes, antioxidants and nutrients. Now that’s amazing. Plus the company is giving my readers a free bottle with the purchase of the first filter (only $15). Here is my review! KOR PLUS WATER BOTTLE REVIEW

This article really hit home, especially the part about being hydrated to feel more energetic. I have so many clients who feel like this when they first start training with me. Once I ask a few deeper questions it always comes out about the lack of water they are drinking. I am going to show this article to all new clients now.

I think it’s great that you are wanting to share this article with your clients. If you want to steer them to a great way to increase their water intake with water infused with electrolytes, antioxidants and nutrients, you should read my article on the Kor Plus water bottle. The manufacturer has actually given my readers a special promotion where if you buy one filter for $15, they will provide the bottle for free! The use of the bottle has really encouraged many of my readers to drink more water!

I love this article. Making changes can be such a challenging thing to do in life. It’s so easy to get sidetracked. I have to use goal cards in which I can see every day. This helps keep me on track. Also, baby steps are so important. Trying to make a dramatic change all in one big hit can be very difficult

Babs…great site. I am reading your posts and thinking, “I wish I could write like her.” If you don’t mind, I will link your site to my BoomerHealthy.com site because much of what you write about will be very valuable to my readers.

Oh yes, we are definitely on the same page! I agree that our websites definitely cater to the same type of audience! Thanks for your compliment about my writing! I do enjoy it and have done it most of my life!

I like how you described that we need to change our life for the better. We live in that time where we are very stressful and a;ways in hurry and we often don’t care four health and body. Honestly, I started to worry about my lifestyle one year ago and I have greatly improved my life with correct nutrition, exercise, sleeping because all of it affects our life.

Great post on how to change your life. I totally agree with dehydration being a major player in your health. Personally I just went through something that made me realize that I need to stay hydrated. 6 days ago I got very dizzy and next thing I know is I was laying on the floor with a broken leg. They told me in the ambulance that I was dehydrated. I couldn’t believe this because I drank a lot of soda which has water in it. I know now that I need to drink water and not soda. Great info thanks

Thank you for your wonderful post. Many of us have things we want to change in life but we lack courage to start. Change will never come if we don’t start it. For example i want to start by changing muy body image. I am not happy with the shape i am having these days. I want to have courage and try to have a morning run but when it is about 5 am and try to get out of bed i fail. What am i supposed to do now? Need some advice.

Plan your exercise around YOUR lifestyle, that’s the main thing. If 5am is too early, and I agree that would be difficult, then take your break from work and take a brisk walk with a nice drink of water in your hand. It’s important that you find a balance that works for you, but FIND IT!

Great Article, I mean great articles. My problem is that I work, work, work and a lot of the times I go to bed way past my bedtime. It’s not a good thing especially because I have to get up at the crack of dawn on most days. When I was younger I would sleep between 8-10 hours a night, but unfortunately as I get older the less sleep I get. Not Good. My priority is to get more sleeping hours per night. Another one of my problems is that I don’t drink enough water. I found your guide for drinking water really great, because I never thought to drink 1 cup an hour. Since I am not much of a water fan that 1 cup an hour is a great option for me.

One my goals is and has been for some time to get over my chronic fatigue, I tried exercise only to feel overwhelmed and sometimes worse off than I started. Do need to drink more water and appreciate you bringing that to my attention, I often lack motivation due to my condition not sure you know much about chronic fatigue but mind set alone is hard to overcome it. Would love to hear how you may be able to assist me as it been a struggle for more than the last 10 years for me. Sam Frederiksen web master bestplace2

My goal is to stop procrastinating. I feel that lately, since I have a full time job but want to work on my website, have been coming home and sit down and enjoy watching tv. Nothing is wrong with that but I would like to be productive with my day, I will find a way to motivate myself into the steps that you mentioned. We will see if I can find a way for me to stick to my website, maybe 2 times a week is a start? Then I still have 5 days to do some light work and entertain myself?

Make sure that the niche you chose is a passion! It really helps with the motivation to provide information on something you really love. Setting a firm schedule, just like a “job” is critical as well. Check out my other website at CoachingforInternetMarketers.com for some tips on creating and maintaining websites. Best of luck to you! -Babs

Thanks for this article it is really helpful, I have always have a high blood pressure due to my depressive nature and I have always battle against this illness but it is still the same, I am glad to have found your article now I know how to deal with it to get the result i want, thank you so much for this post once again it is really helpful, I will definitely share it with my friends and family I believe they too can learn a lot from this.

I will be addressing high blood pressure. I am currently in the research phase right now, but I do have a friend who suffers terribly from it, so I’m doing that partly for her. Please subscribe so that you get notification of the articles when they are published.

WOW, what a powerful article. I know for myself I need to make baby step changes but when I read it in words it kind of solidified it for me. I do need more sleep but hesitate for fear it will make tomorrow come quicker. Maybe if I actually had more sleep and began to feel better I wouldn’t fear tomorrow. I think there are many that feel like I do hence the reason this article probably exists. It’s nice to hear that you have found the strength to change and can help others by your own success because it shows me that I too can do it.

If you don’t want tomorrow to come, you definitely need to take stock and make those changes. You are the only one who can! I wish you luck, and please keep in touch with your success, because I know you will have great success! -Babs

In response to this post, you have made me realize that I need to seriously take some time to take stock on the things that I have been doing in my life that have created my current results that I would like to change.

I will just say the results that I would like to change are related to my business. I don’t want to share the specifics online.

I like your tip to picture myself in the way that I want to be. So, would my first step be taking inventory of what I need to do differently or creating the mental image of the way that I want to be?

I love the baby step idea, taking small baby step/s a day is very doable I think, if one is really committed :)….Water is also my problem, as I don’t drink enough myself. I will try your one cup every hour trick. If you break it down small like that, it doesn’t seem impossible to do 🙂

At age sixty, I have had to look at the changes I need to make in order to have the life I want. Last year I signed up for an exercise program and I am enjoying it. The challenge is I now have to pay attention to drinking more water even when I don’t feel very thirsty. I also need to be serious about keeping my supplements in stock. I agree with you, not only do we need to identify what changes need to be made, but also, we need to design a way to stick with our new habits for our own good.

There is nothing in life that can change unless you initiate the change. You need to do thorough assessment of any situation around you, do a research and find how to get it changed.. When you make a change try and stick to the change

This great article is great, I have to confess since I started working online I have changed too much on how long I sleep and I have almost reduced the sleeping time by almost two hrs daily but the only positive to me is I have been drinking a lot of water though I didn’t know it so that helps that much. I am glad I found this because I am asking my self is how do I make those changes in my life easier and your article helped answer that.

Remember, Charles, baby steps. One small step in the right direction, get that one down and then another. It’s the only way or you will become overwhelmed. I want to caution about sleep. It is critical, and I do understand, because once I started my online blog, I don’t sleep as many hours either. I love doing this, so I spend a lot of time and sometimes have to make myself go to bed. – Babs

Thank you for a very inspirational article. I like your suggestion that to make a lasting change in our life-style we should first take stock of ourselves. We should be honest and objective about this self-evaluation and decide what are our priorities. A change in our life-style should not be just to improve our appearance, but it should be deeper.A change that will lead to more inner peace and well being.You are right that changes should be made in baby steps. We want to improve our life-style but without adding stress to our lives. I personally found that for me the first step was to start exercising regularly. I have been postponing this with excuses,such as old age or lack of time.A baby step was to start with stretching at home.Now I have moved to regular visits to the gym.This also resulted in more hydration and more vitamins.Feeling much better now.Thank you for your inspiration.

Change happens whether we like it or not. All we can do is harness change and try and steer it in a positive direction. Unfortunately not all changes can be controlled by us and used in a positive way.

We shouldn’t be afraid of change! Let change into our lives because change is happening all around us and will not ever cease to occur.

Small steps, Emmanuel! Nothing rash. Figure out what it is you feel you need to change in your life and map out a roadmap. Take one step at a time and before you know it, you’ll have new habits, healthier ones, and a better lifestyle. It starts to snowball, the more you change, because as the benefits start to show, it makes it easier. – Babs

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